Seagate has
announced a new storage solution that is the first hard drive in the world to
hit the 1TB per platter mark.

The new 3.5” Seagate Barracuda desktop HDD breaks the 1TB areal density barrier
and will help to meet the demand for more storage capacity with the glut of
digital media that is consumed by your average person today. The new HDD will
have 3TB of storage with three platters inside.

Seagate
notes that it is on target to ship the drive, but offers no details on what
that target ship date is.

“Organizations of all sizes and consumers worldwide are amassing digital
content at light speed, generating immense demand for storage of digital
content of every imaginable kind,” said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate Executive Vice
President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “We remain keenly focused on
delivering the storage capacity, speed and manageability our customers need to
thrive in an increasingly digital world.”

Seagate also took the time to talk about its GoFlex Desk products that are
reaching 3TB storage capacity using an areal density on internal drives of
625GB per square inch. That is the industry's highest capacity per square inch
of space. The GoFlex external HDDs will work with Windows and Mac computers and
come with an NTFS driver for Mac computers.

Pricing
is unannounced on both the GoFlex and the 3TB Barracuda.

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